Passiflora pentagona | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Brazil, State of Rio de Janeiro.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 10 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

ETYMOLOGY:

 From the trunk to pentagon section, with five faces. From the Greek πέντε, pénte, five and from γωνία gonía, angle: with five angles or edges.

NOTES:

  Chromosomes: n=12, 2n=24